Untrended ROC vs. Trended ROC

Hi All,

Can someone explain the difference between untrended ROC and trended ROC? My initial assumption was that Untrended Return on Cost = not stabilized (uses current rents; doesn't incorporate growth in rent) and Trended Return on Cost = stabilized return on cost (incorporates rent growth).

Is this accurate? Or am I missing something? I feel like I have seen instances where people refer to untrended stabilized ROC which makes me think I am not fully understanding.

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"larry david" This is correct. Some people also will trend OpEx as well but not all people.

I can't imagine anyone gets away with trending rents but not expenses. You've got to have a pretty naive lender/investor to pull that off.

 

Your assessment of untrended vs trended ROC is correct. In my experience, banks typically look at untrended yields as a conservative approach to sizing a construction or rehab loan. If rent growth stays stagnant, assuring the deal still works with untrended rents is important especially at this stage in the cycle.

 
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Everyone used to look for a 100+ bps spread on today’s rent (untrended) with a conservative cap rate so really it was like 150+. Now everything is expensive and 100 (read 150) is really more like 50-75 so people started trending (inflating) rent so that it still gets to 100 bps on today’s actual (not at all conservative) cap rates. Sign of the times.

 

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